Jayant Kaikini was born in Gokarna. His father, Gourish Kaikini, a schoolteacher, was a Kannada littérateur and mother Shanta, a social worker. After a Masters in Biochemistry from Karnataka University, Dharwad, he moved to Mumbai where he worked as a chemist for many years. He now lives in Bangalore with his wife Smita and two children, Srajana (daughter) who is an Odissi dancer and architect, and Ritwik (son). Apart from Kannada Jayant is fluent in Konkani (his mother tongue), Marathi, Hindi and ... more »

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Have you conversed with dogs? Rubbing your cheeks against theirstriped, spotted throbbing throats,have you listened to their hot breathed exuberance?

Have you felt slighted as it elopedwith a bitch during mating seasonignoring the feed andyou too?

It is angrrrry at somebody in the deserted backyard -standing with woof woof breathless adotongue in a tizzy, then, the momentyou touch its back like cooled off milkit begins to soften, have you experienced it?